Tommy Pickles and The Great White Thing
| "Tommy Pickles and The Great White Thing" | |
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| Rugrats episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 0 Episode 0 (unaired pilot) |
| Directed by | Peter Chung |
| Written by | Ben Herndon Paul Germain |
| Original air date | 1990 (unaired) August 2001 (DVD) |
Tommy Pickles and The Great White Thing is a 6 1/2 minute unaired pilot for the popular animated series Rugrats. It is one of three pilots to the series (two remain unaired). The production for this episode began in 1989 and ended in 1990. Nickelodeon had a choice of airing this or Tommy's First Birthday.
Apart from exhibitions at animation festivals and conventions, this episode was never seen by the public until August 2001, when it appeared on Volume 1 of the Rugrats: A Decade in Diapers video, which was released as part of Rugrats' 10th Anniversary on Nickelodeon.
An infant named Tommy Pickles sneaks into the bathroom, and is intrigued by the toilet, which he calls The Great White Thing. Before he gets very close to it, however, his grandad picks him up and carries him to the playpen. There, Tommy tells Phil and Lil that he'll be going back. Meanwhile, Stu and Didi, Tommy's parents, are having a couple of friends over for dinner. Later, Stu and Didi put Tommy to bed in his crib, only for Tommy to escape using what would become the old "screwdriver as crib opener" trick.
Tommy proceeds to the bathroom, where he makes a big mess, especially when it comes to toilet paper and the toilet plunger. Tommy leaves the bathroom, and enters the living room on Spike's back, with plunger in hand. After they get by Grandpa's side, Grandpa gets up to use the toilet during a chicken commercial on television, only to find out that the bathroom in shambles.
Grandpa calls Stu and Didi to the bathroom, and the three begin to panic. Whilst this is going on, Tommy picks up the remote and changes the channel to a rock and roll video. He and Spike begin to dance along to the beat over the ensuing argument between the three adults.
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